For your perusal, an extract from the upcoming book Modern Cooking in Gensokyo, compiled by an anonymous author and published by Suzunaan.
Scarlet Devil Mansion's Sweet Jam Pie
Ingredients:
Pastry:
150g of butter
Half a cup of sugar
One egg
One and a half cups of flour
One teaspoonful of baking powder
Filling:
Half a cup of sugar
Pinch of vanilla extract
500g of blood jelly*
*If out of blood jelly, substitute with strawberry jam
Preparation:
1. Mix together the butter and one half of the sugar
2. Add the egg. Use force when mixing
3. Mix the baking powder in with the flour
4. Add the flour mixture into the batter.
5. Ensure no fairies dip their fingers into the batter
6. Place the batter in a pie tin; shape the edges
7. Mix all the ingredients to the filling together
8. Add the filling to the pie
9. Bake for half an hour. Serve with tea and generous dollops of whipped cream or ice cream
Forest of Magic Mushroom Soup
Ingredients:
600g of assorted mushrooms. The more colourful the better
1 cup of vegetable stock
Salt
Pepper
Chilli
Optional: an onion
Optional: any edible plants you find on the forest floor
Preparation:
1. Fill a cauldron 3/4 full of water and set it to boil.
2. Clean and chop the mushrooms. If using onion and herbs, slice 'em up as well
3. Add the mushroom, the stock, and any other ingredients. Let the fire cool off till the soup only simmers
4. Add seasoning
5. Once the entire room smells delicious, it's done. Take the soup off the stove
6. Enjoy alone or in poison-resistant company. Compare hallucinations to taste
Shrine Maiden's End-of-Winter Mon-stretching Meal
Ingredients:
One cup of rice
1 pickle (add another if the previous year's harvest was exceptionally good)
1 prayer
Preparation:
1. Boil the rice. Place it in a cup.
2. Add a pickle on top.
3. While eating your food, close your eyes and pretend it's the harvest festival, and that this is only the first course of a luxurious banquet
4. Try not to curse
Kagerou's Moonlight Grilled Steak
Ingredients:
Meat
Preparation:
1. Catch the meat. The fresher, the better
2. Prepare the meat. Select the nicest, juiciest cuts, preferably with lots of fat.
3. Make a fire
4. Hold the meat above the flames for fifteen seconds
5. Howl to the moon to taste
Yukari Yakumo's Pre-Hibernation Special
Ingredients:
1kg of sirloin steak
Two cups of beef stock
One scallion
200g of shungiku
200g of shiitake
1/2 cabbage
Salt
Black sesame
Tahini
2 cups of sukiyaki sauce
Six eggs
Five bottles of sake
Preparation:
1. Gather all the ingredients
2. Look at all the ingredients
3. Think why, exactly, you thought you wanted to cook for yourself tonight when you didn't wish to do so during the past 167 days, either
4. Consider whether it's too late to call Ran back from the mission you sent her to
5. Open a gap into the outside world
6. Grab prepared appetisers from the nearest three-star restaurant
7. Repeat for the main course and dessert
8. Enjoy the sake and a well-earned meal